This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Captain Vivian Holmes Watkins. Unit: 1st/2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (Territorial Force). Death: 20 February 1915 Wounded on 16 January 1915 Western Front. Died in the Empire Hospital Westminster
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Cecil Henry Dundas. Unit: 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 20 February 1915 Wounded 19 February 1915 near Ypres Western Front.
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Newman enlisted with the Queen's Westminster Rifles on the outbreak of War in August 1914. He was posted to the Western Front on 20 February 1915. Following the Battle of Hooge, he was invalided home and acquired a commission in the North Sta
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Jack St. Clair Gainey Harris. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 20 February 1915, killed in action at La Bassee, Western Front.
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ralph Morison Forbes-Ross. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Death: 20 February 1915 Zillbeke Western Front
Died 20 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 February 1916
Imperial War Museum
Company Sergeant Major W H Littlejohn 204331. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 20 February 1917 Western Front
Died 20 February 1917
Imperial War Museum